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by tptacek 2537 days ago
What was fun about "Against DNSSEC" is that I feel like I was one of the first people there with that argument (it's very satisfying to see the rest of the world come around). But on PGP, I'd be very late to the party; nobody in cryptography engineering seems to like PGP, and some of the most high-profile people in the space, like Matthew Green, have repeatedly implied that it's a scourge.
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Yes but weirdly you might be the first to put the short anti-PGP case in one place for regular nerds. The nature of DNSSEC is such it's ok not everyone is aware it doesn't do anything for query privacy or whatever. PGP is the other way round - there's a small set of important facts and FAQs relevant and actionable to lots of people. Who not only don't know better but are also being actively misinformed.